Today marked the first day of MIT’s Health and Wellness Innovation 2013, a two-week hackathon where participants with diverse backgrounds and skills convene at the MIT Media Lab to rapid prototype patient-oriented healthcare technologies. Each year is an opportunity for us to work with groups comprised of some of academia’s brightest minds and companies like Motorola, Phillips, Novartis, Hallmark, and GlaxoSmithKline. This year, 80 participants and 6 …